Cucumber

Water

Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 160 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–32 °C on average, and survives 6–38 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 36 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Cucumber: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.0–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 21 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–September 2026): about ₹1,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in March.

Typical costs are about ₹23,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.